Sat, 08/29/2009 - 1:49pm — lambert
PNHP provides this handy comparison chart, along with a lot of other material about the Weiner amendment:
| Single-Payer Amendment | HR 3200 As Written | |
| Universal Coverage | Yes. Everyone is covered automatically at birth. | No. More than 20 million remain uninsured and tens of millions remain underinsured. |
| Full Range of Benefits | Yes. Coverage for all medically necessary services. | No. Insurers continue to strip-down policies and increase patients’ co-payments and deductibles. |
| Savings | Yes. Redirect $400 billion in administrative waste to care; no net increase in health spending. | No. Increase health spending more than $1 trillion over 10 years. Add further layers of administrative bloat to our health system through the introduction of a regulator / broker “exchange.” |
| Cost Control / Sustainablity | Yes. Large scale cost controls (negotiated fee schedule with physicians, bulk purchasing of drugs, hospital budgeting, capital planning, etc.) ensure that benefits are sustainable over the long term. | No. Uncontrolled costs ensure that any gains in coverage are quickly erased as government is forced to hike spending or slash benefits. |
| Choice of Doctor and Hospital | Yes. Patients would be allowed free choice of their doctor and hospital. | No. Insurance companies continue to deny and limit care and to maintain restrictive networks. |
| Progressive Financing | Yes. Premiums and out-of-pocket costs are replaced with a progressive income contribution. 95 percent of Americans pay less. | No. Continues the unfair financing of health care whereby costs are disproportionately paid by middle and lower income Americans and those families facing acute or chronic illness. |
I like re-framing “Cost/Control” as “sustainability.”
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